We don' need no steenken rules!

"If a little is good, then a lot must be really great." -- said in jest at a cooking school.

The above quote is commonly heard by master chefs when teaching new students about how much spice to use in a recipe. In reality, the right amount of any spice is "not too much" and "not too little" at the same time. This is also called "in moderation."

When it comes to rules for firearm purchases, it makes good sense that everyone agrees to follow the rules that are for everyone's best interests. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees to follow the rules, and you end up with a volunteer force of law-abiding citizens who are following the rules that don't even apply to them. Yet they continue to shoulder the burden of compliance. Here is an example of someone who apparently chose not to comply with those "rules":

<blockquote><h4>NJ woman lied to get gun that killed cop</h4>
<i>She lied on a firearms-purchase application for a gun that her boyfriend used to kill a state trooper nine days later</i>

By Michael Hinkelman
The Philadelphia Daily News

WESTFIELD, NJ — A New Jersey woman admitted in federal court yesterday that she lied on a firearms-purchase application when she bought a handgun that was used nine days later to kill a Pennsylvania state trooper.

The woman, Emily Joy Gross, 25, of Westfield, bought the Taurus 9 mm pistol and box of ammo on May 29, 2009. Her then-boyfriend, Daniel Autenrieth, used the gun to kill Trooper Joshua Miller during a high-speed chase and subsequent shootout in Monroe County on June 7, 2009."

http://www.policeone.com/police-products/firearms/articles/3295760-NJ-wo...
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It appears that this person followed all the laws that BATFE deems necessary for a law-abiding U.S. Citizen to exercise the God-given right of gun ownership.

And then, after following all the rules that BATFE has prescribed, supposedly to make <strong>us</strong> "safer", a police officer gets killed by a dangerous felon, using that very gun. A convicted felon. In the act of committing another felony, namely, the felon "attempted to kidnap his son from his ex-wife, then crashed his car while fleeing from troopers. (ibid.)"

So these rules, which we have agreed to follow, don't seem to be making us any safer. The reason for this is clear to a reasonable person. Do you think the answer is "more rules"?

What do you think the BATFE will recommend? More rules? More paperwork? More freedom?